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KUWAIT: Victoria Orero from the US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (second from left) is taken on a tour inside the labor shelter yesterday.

US trafficking combat official visits labor shelter

KUWAIT: Victoria Orero from the US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (second from left) is taken on a tour inside the labor shelter yesterday.KUWAIT: Officials at the labor shelter operated by the Public Authority for Manpower received yesterday Victoria Orero from the US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, who was accompanied by a delegation including the US embassy's political...

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Info Ministry takes hands off online election polls

Candidates invited to submit applicationsKUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Information yesterday decided to cancel item 6 of article 8/2016 of e-media law. By this decision, the ministry is taking its hands off controlling polls carried out by licensed websites and electronic media facilities for the upcoming November 26 parliament elections. It also allows running those polls without the ministry's prior approval, said the ministry in a press...

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Kuwait keen on human rights: Researcher

NEW YORK: Bolstering human rights is a top priority for the State of Kuwait, said a researcher in a speech to a UN social, humanitarian, and cultural committee meeting late Tuesday. Sarah Saleh Al-Zouman, member of the Kuwaiti diplomatic delegation partaking in the 71st UN General Assembly, told the meeting that her country was very keen on implementing legislations and policies aimed at improving the situation of human rights in Kuwait. Kuwait...

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Search for 'matchmaker'

KUWAIT: A matchmaker failed to realize the dream of a citizen to get married after she took KD 500 to find a match for him. The 29-year-old citizen agreed with a matchmaker to search for a woman for him according to certain criteria and signed a contract for that and paid KD 500, but three months elapsed without any result, and she kept telling him to wait until she finds a suitable match. When the citizen realized he will not get anything from...

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KD 400 bag stolen

KUWAIT: A 29-year-old female citizen told police in Mubarak Al-Kabeer governorate that an unidentified person stole her bag in a five-star hotel when she left it on the table and went for a buffet. She said her bag, which is worth KD 400, was stolen along with its contents including her driving license, car keys and an iPhone 6.Work mishapA Bangladeshi cleaner was killed after his Nepalese colleague ran him over in Khaitan in an apparent work...

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They should apologize

Candidates who previously boycotted the elections claiming the illegality of the one-vote decree but are running this time round have the right to revert to the right thing and re-choose, and they should not be reprimanded, as the case is currently, by many gloaters. If we reproach all those who correct their mistakes, then no one will be corrected, and no one will back down from their mistakes. But in reality, most of them deserve to be...

MOSUL: Iraqi soldiers pose with an Islamic State (IS) group flag as they hold a position in the village of Gogjali. —AFP

Aid workers 'brace for the worst' from Mosul battle

Bad weather appears to have limited operations MOSUL: Iraqi soldiers pose with an Islamic State (IS) group flag as they hold a position in the village of Gogjali. —AFPGOGJALI: More than a million civilians in Mosul are in grave danger and aid workers are "bracing for the worst", a relief group said yesterday, after Iraqi forces reached the jihadist-held city. Just over two weeks into the offensive to retake the last Iraqi city under the control...

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (3rd L) gives a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin as she is handed over the annual report on the country’s economic development by members of the German Council of Economic Experts. — AFP

Bruised by crisis, Merkel face difficult election

Lingering rancor over her open-door migrant policy BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (3rd L) gives a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin as she is handed over the annual report on the country’s economic development by members of the German Council of Economic Experts. — AFPBERLIN: Germany's mass refugee influx may have abated, but the fears and tensions it stoked loom large as a weakened Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to...

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Two main IS obsessions: beards and concubines

ZARQA/SHURA: After Islamic State conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard length to alms to guidelines for taking women as sex slaves. Islamic State documents and posters, obtained in villages captured by Iraqi forces, highlight a tight and comprehensive system of rule by the militants, who went to great lengths to explain their extremist philosophy.The documents...

Saeed Mortazavi was a key figure in Iran's judiciary from 2003 and 2009 - AP

Tehran ex-prosecutor given 135 lashes for corruption

TEHRAN: Tehran's notorious former chief prosecutor, Said Mortazavi, has been sentenced to 135 lashes for misappropriation and waste of public money while head of Iran's welfare program, Iranian media reported yesterday.Mortazavi "was sentenced to 70 lashes for misappropriation of public goods and 65 lashes for negligence and waste of public goods," said Mostafa Torkhamedani, lawyer for workers at the Social Security Organisation who brought the...

ISLAMABAD: Supporters of a Pakistani opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Isaf wave party flags while taking part in a rally. — AP

Pakistan releases 2,000 oppn party supporters

ISLAMABAD: Supporters of a Pakistani opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Isaf wave party flags while taking part in a rally. — APISLAMABAD: Pakistani police yesterday released nearly 2,000 opposition party supporters of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan who were detained ahead of planned anti-government protests, a government spokesman said. The majority of Khan's supporters were set free from Punjab province jails on orders from Chief...

SRINAGAR: Kashmiri students study outside a house on the outskirts of Srinagar. — AFP

Kashmir schools shut after deadly shelling

Nearly 300 schools had been ordered to close SRINAGAR: Kashmiri students study outside a house on the outskirts of Srinagar. — AFPSRINAGAR: Hundreds of schools were ordered to close indefinitely in Kashmir yesterday after shelling by Indian and Pakistani troops in the disputed region killed 14 civilians in two days. Authorities on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir, which is split between the two nations, said nearly 300 schools had been...

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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP

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